Job opening: Jersey Vindicator seeks county chronicler coordinators
The Jersey Vindicator is launching our new “County Chronicler” pilot program. The program will train community members to attend county government meetings, take notes, engage with residents, and flag issues for potential follow-up by reporters. Chronicler reporting from meetings will be published on The Jersey Vindicator website and will be shared with media partners across the state for republication.
We are seeking two coordinators to lead the new chroniclers program. Applicants should:
- Have experience managing programs and volunteers
- Be detail-oriented in managing programs and systems
- Be passionate about journalism and understand the importance of civic information in strengthening democracy
- Love working with people
- Have strong skills building relationships with community members and partner organizations
- Understand the power of collaboration
- Believe in the power of residents to help bring civic information to their communities and see them as important partners with media organizations
- Have good writing skills and experience with online publishing content management systems such as WordPress.
Location: Hybrid in New Jersey
Hours: 10-12 hours per week.
Pay: $30-35 per hour depending on experience
Krystal Knapp is the founder, executive director, and publisher of The Jersey Vindicator and the founder of Planet Princeton. She has more than two decades of experience reporting in New Jersey, including 10 years at The Trenton Times, where she was the newsroom’s public records and computer-assisted reporting expert. Her work has been recognized by the New Jersey Press Association and the Center for Cooperative Media. You can reach her at Krystal AT jerseyvindicator.org.